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Obama’s solid week falls flat with disappointing jobs report
The country added an estimated 96,000 jobs in August -- much lower than analysts predicted.
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Obama: Climate change is not a joke, Mitt
President Obama surprised and delighted climate activists by making a defense of climate action in his big convention speech.
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What do you do when climate change drops out of politics? Whatever you can
Why Clinton barely mentioned climate, why Gore isn't speaking at the convention, and why a mother from L.A. isn't eating.
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World’s richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 a day
Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, can't believe she has to pay miners more than they would earn in Africa. She'd much rather pay them $2 a day (or less).
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Paul Ryan’s wind power hypocrisy
His arguments against the wind production tax credit would be much better applied to subsidies for Big Oil.
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Ed Markey, coauthor of big cap-and-trade bill, now lauds Obama’s ‘drill baby drill’ approach
Rep. Ed Markey, one of the biggest climate hawks in Congress, is now talking up President Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, from renewables to oil drilling.
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Big Dog touches on big issue: Bill Clinton nods to climate change in convention speech
In a barn burner of a speech Wednesday night, Bill Clinton became the first big-timer at the Democratic convention to make reference to climate change.
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Coal company: Global market prompts miner furlough. GOP rep: I blame Obama
The closure of at least one mine will put 606 employees out of work.
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Climate and energy get no love on day one of Democratic convention
Michelle Obama, Julian Castro, and other headliners generated a lot of energy -- just not the kind you can power a house or a car with.
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The government can’t afford its greenhouse gas monitoring regimen anymore
NOAA spends about $6 million a year to monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases -- or it used to, when it had money.
